I once had the opposite. I woke up to a dream because “the story was okay, but this thing is so horrendously badly directed that this really is not worth watching!”
People kept being shown either from too close or from too far away and the director was concentrating on a lot of irrelevant things, and omitting a lot that would be important for actually undertanding the plot.
The dream was not scary to any extent. Just badly directed. So, I “left the theatre”, that is: Woke up. and was annoyed because I had managed to sleep only a bit over half of what I would have needed to. And couldn’t fall asleep anytime soon after waking up. It did not help that I felt like an idiot for this conflict between the “viewer” and the “director”. Like, how the hell is this even a reason to wake up? Just fix the damn direction if it bothers, you stupid viewer. You two are the same damn guy!
I once had the opposite. I woke up to a dream because “the story was okay, but this thing is so horrendously badly directed that this really is not worth watching!”
People kept being shown either from too close or from too far away and the director was concentrating on a lot of irrelevant things, and omitting a lot that would be important for actually undertanding the plot.
The dream was not scary to any extent. Just badly directed. So, I “left the theatre”, that is: Woke up. and was annoyed because I had managed to sleep only a bit over half of what I would have needed to. And couldn’t fall asleep anytime soon after waking up. It did not help that I felt like an idiot for this conflict between the “viewer” and the “director”. Like, how the hell is this even a reason to wake up? Just fix the damn direction if it bothers, you stupid viewer. You two are the same damn guy!
My brain is not clever.